A bill in the Florida Senate is taking a look at how college and university leadership is selected. The legislation has advanced through the Senate Appropriations Committee on Higher Education and is now one step away from reaching the Senate floor.

A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them.

A Florida bill under consideration by lawmakers would establish a public animal abuse registry to help keep offenders from owning pets in the future.

Florida lawmakers are trying to fix in three days a home insurance problem that’s been stormy for three decades, approving legislation designed more to keep private insurers in the state than to immediately save property owners money.

Ron DeSantis on Thursday ordered an investigation into a nonprofit domestic abuse agency whose CEO had received $7.5 million in compensation over a three-year span. The House on Thursday voted to subpoena Carr and the domestic violence coalition's board of directors. “As to the measures that we're taking, they're extraordinary, I would say, but these are extraordinary circumstances,” Republican House Speaker Jose Oliva told reporters after the vote. Since then, the House has sought coalition documents for 20 months. “This is not a good morning, and I think today will prove to be a bad day in the history of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence,” Leek told his committee before the full House met.